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  • How Good Are Parklets?

    Reclaiming Street Space Through Temporary and Tactical Urbanism

    by Quentin Stevens ...
    Parklets are innovative, dynamic public spaces that are installed onto on-street car-parking spots. These very small spaces have had a very large and lasting impact on city streets. How Good Are Parklets? is the first book to critically examine the parklet’s purposes, formats and impacts. It traces the parklet’s history, from its invention in 2005 as an experiment that tactically reclaimed street ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Loose Space

    Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

    Edited by Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens ...
    In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Temporary and Tactical Urbanism

    (Re)Assembling Urban Space

    by Quentin Stevens, Kim Dovey ...
    Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects range from guerrilla gardens and bike lanes to more formalised temporary beaches and swimming pools, parklets, pop-up plazas and buildings and container towns.These practices enable diverse forms of economic, social and artistic life that are usually repressed ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Activating Urban Waterfronts

    Planning and Design for Inclusive, Engaging and Adaptable Public Spaces

    by Quentin Stevens ...
    Activating Urban Waterfronts shows how urban waterfronts can be designed, managed and used in ways that can make them more inclusive, lively and sustainable. The book draws on detailed examination of a diversity of waterfronts from cities across Europe, Australia and Asia, illustrating the challenges of connecting these waterfront precincts to the surrounding city and examining how well they ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Ludic City

    Exploring the Potential of Public Spaces

    by Quentin Stevens ...
    This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life.Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition – competition, chance, simulation and vertigo. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Memorials as Spaces of Engagement

    Design, Use and Meaning

    by Quentin Stevens, Karen A. Franck ...
    Memorials are more diverse in design and subject matter than ever before. No longer limited to statues of heroes placed high on pedestals, contemporary memorials engage visitors in new, often surprising ways, contributing to the liveliness of public space. In Memorials as Spaces of Engagement Quentin Stevens and Karen A. Franck explore how changes in memorial design and use have helped forge ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Uses of Art in Public Space

    Edited by Julia Lossau, Quentin Stevens ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm. Whilst most writing about public art has focused on the aesthetic, cultural and political intentions and processes that shape its production, this edited collection examines a variety of public artworks from the perspective of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Public Space Design and Social Cohesion

    An International Comparison

    Edited by Patricia Aelbrecht, Quentin Stevens ...
    Social cohesion is often perceived as being under threat from the increasing cultural and economic differences in contemporary cities and the increasing intensity of urban life. Public space, in its role as the main stage for social interactions between strangers, clearly plays a role in facilitating or limiting opportunities for social cohesion. But what exactly is social cohesion, how is it ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Creative Milieux

    How Urban Design Nurtures Creative Clusters

    Edited by Quentin Stevens ...
    The so-called ‘creative industries’ are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development. Until now, research on the clustering of such activities has been limited to economics, geography and urban policy. This book is the first to gather together emerging research in urban design and spatial planning that explores what characteristics of the built ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Transforming Urban Waterfronts

    Fixity and Flow

    Edited by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Geography
    In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of hope with sustainable urban economies—economies intended to both compete in and support globally ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Urban Design Futures

    Edited by Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland ...
    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Read more

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  • Urban Playground

    How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

    by Tim Gill ...
    What type of cities do we want our children to grow up in? Car-dominated, noisy, polluted and devoid of nature? Or walkable, welcoming, and green? As the climate crisis and urbanisation escalate, cities urgently need to become more inclusive and sustainable. This book reveals how seeing cities through the eyes of children strengthens the case for planning and transportation policies that work for ... Read more

    $47.95 USD